This is kind of disappointing, but the Nordic SDK example programs are too coupled. What I mean is I was looking for a quick and dirty way to get the BLE command interface to the cellphone done. I don't think that is possible now. I think I have to dig into their softdevice API documentation. The softdevice is their BLE stack, which only comes in binary form. This really slows things down. The good news, is when there is bugs, I can fix them much faster with insight into the softdevice. I hadn't counted on this time sink though.